New Gallery

This month the DT worked with either Capella or Max & Whiskers from Basic Grey. The teamw ere joined by guest scrapper Rebekah Norman who produced a lovely home decor item as well as some layouts to inspire you. A big thanks to Rebekah for taking part this month :)

Click HERE to see the Gallery!

Calling All 7 Gypsies Fans......................

We were up very late last night until 2.15am as 7 Gypsies were holding a Webinar to showcase their new products for Summer 2010. We love 7 Gypsies and asked if we could share the catalogue with our blog readers and they said that YES! So here it is

Let us know what catches your eye, we have placed our initial order which included almost all the new product but we are always keen to find out what people are most anticipating!

July Challenge

In the past month or so we did a focus on Multi Photo Layouts, so this months challenge is to scrap a layout with 3 or more photos on. No other rules, just make a multi photo layout and email your challenge entry to me Mel@atripdownmemorylane.co.uk on or before 29th July

Please note the early closing date... I leave for my cruise on 30th July and although the blog will still be active I will post the winner of Julys challenge before I go as I won't be back til 18th August. Jill will still be here manning the shop and the emails but she has delegated challenge judging to me!

The winner will receive a £25 ATDML Shopping voucher.

A Blast From The Past!

It is amazing how things come and go in the scrapping world, just as in the fashion world, what is "hot" one season is old news the next. However I think it is kind of fun to revisit some older ideas, techniques and styles. Let's face it the fashions will all come round again - It is not that many years since I heard the 80's described as the decade that fashion forgot, now you can't move for leggings, big T Shirts and 80's retro!

So todays little blast from the past nostalgia is...

... The Paper Bag Book!

In a months time I am leaving for my holiday, another trip on the wonderful Disney Cruise Line and being the forum addict that I am I have signed up for a "Cruise Meet" thread with fellow cruisers. As we did last year we have signed up for a swap where cruisers on the same trip exchange small gifts. While searching for inspiration for my gifts I saw a fabulous paper bag album which someone had made (well actually they made 19 of them) for a swap on their cruise!

After a little bit of digging around I found a stash of small paper bags and I am duly constructing 10 paper bag mini albums to give on my cruise and I am really enjoying doing it. I will of course share pictures when they are done but I wanted to share my little trip down memory lane remembering the days when UKS was awash with posts about where did the best deal on which size of paper bag!

Sketch Inspiration Number 11

Remember that the July sketch challenge also includes the sketch posted towards the end of June, but if you have already had a go at that or fancied something different then take a look at this sketch.

Based on the layout "Zoo Fun" I did in Junes DT gallery it will encourage you to utilise the white space on your layout. It is sometimes really hard to stop and leave areas of the layout unembellished but it can really help make a statement with a bold font the combination will be clear, graphic and striking.

To enter the sketch challenge post a reply to the relevant sketch post with a link to your layout either on your blog or in an online gallery. The winner will receive a £10 ATDML shopping voucher and of course hopefully by participating you will be having fun being creative and adding layouts to your albums :)

ATDML Are Pleased...

... To be sponsoring the first months challenge over at an exciting new Challenge blog called "Chicken Soup For The Poorly Mojo"


Each Friday a recipe of visual inspiration will be posted, for example an advert, album cover, art work or similar and the team will post their take on that weeks recipe giving you the initial inspiration plus a variety of idea of what you can create from the recipe.

I am really pleased to have been asked to be one of the Chicken Soup cooks and I hope that you will check out this new challenge blog to see what the cooks are whipping up each week for your weekend!

Recipe #1 Featured The Coca Cola World Cup Poster and my take on the recipe is below. Do visit the blog to see what some of the others did with this recipe

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Scrapping Bingo Winner

And the winner of the Scrapping Bingo Challenge is....

This layout by Karen Barker who used the second vertical line:

!. Circles - sun and hambly trancparancy, layered cirles and brad and compass

2. Multi photo layout- 3 photos used

3. Use mists or paint - Chalkboard glimmer mists and tim holtz mask used

4. Add something metal - karen foster licence plate and pink paislee brad

Thanks to all who took part. We loved this challenge so I am sure Scrapping Bingo will be back soon! Karen wins an ATDML shopping voucher as our winner.